Two former Parramatta Eels players are accused of harbouring semi-automatic weapons and possessing more than half-a-million dollars in cash after dramatic arrests in Sydney's Centennial Park yesterday.

Sydney woman tells of fear after raid

The wife of a terrorist recruiter says she was screaming and frightened when men in balaclavas and helmets burst into her southwest Sydney home during an early morning police raid.

Moutia Elzahed tried to cover herself in a bed sheet when the men carrying flashlights and guns entered her Revesby bedroom about 4.30am on September 18, 2014, according to an affidavit tendered in the NSW Court of Appeal.

"I am of the Muslim faith and a man cannot see my face unless he is my husband or brother, father or son," she said.

"I felt scared and kept screaming when one man came towards me and he tried to pull my bed sheet down. I saw lights up in my face."

Elzahed claims the man yelled "shut up bitch" and "get out of the bed bitch" before punching her in the ear, eye and head.

She sued police last year over the raid but refused to give evidence after a judge ruled she could not testify while wearing a niqab, which covered her face but not her eyes.

Her case was unsuccessful but on Thursday she was given leave to appeal after her barrister Guy Reynolds SC argued there were options for her to give evidence without showing her face to men.